Pictures from Buckroe Beach

Waves described as being "mountain-high" and wind-driven rain pounded the summer homes at Buckroe Beach in what is now Hampton on Aug. 23, 1933 when a hurricane, dubbed by the Daily Press as Storm King, ripped across the Peninsula.

Waves described as being "mountain-high" and wind-driven rain pounded the summer homes at Buckroe Beach in what is now Hampton on Aug. 23, 1933 when a hurricane, dubbed by the Daily Press as Storm King, ripped across the Peninsula. (Daily Press archives)